John Horace Forney

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General Forney

John Horace Forney (born August 12, 1829 in Lincoln , North Carolina , † September 13, 1902 in Jacksonville , Alabama ) was an officer in the US Army and Major General of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War .

Life

Forney was born in Lincoln, North Carolina in 1829. In 1835 the family moved to Alabama, where he and his brother William Henry , also a later Confederate general, were tutored by private tutors. From 1848 he attended the military academy in West Point , New York , which he successfully completed in 1852 as the 22nd of his class. He then served as a lieutenant in the 7th and 10th US Infantry Regiments and was promoted to first lieutenant on August 25, 1855 . After participating in the Utah War under the command of Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston , Forney returned to the military academy teaching tactics . After it was foreseeable that no agreement could be reached on the secession issue between the northern and southern states , he resigned on January 23, 1861.

Promoted to Colonel in the Confederate Army , Forney was appointed commander of the 10th Alabama Infantry Regiment after the outbreak of war on June 4, 1861, and participated in several battles in Virginia during the first year of the war , until he was at Dranesville on December 20, Virginia, was wounded several times. He was promoted to brigadier general on March 10, 1862 and transferred to Mobile , Alabama.

On October 27, 1862, Forney was promoted to major general and appointed commander of a division in the Mississippi Confederate Army under Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton . After the capture after the surrender of Vicksburg , Forney was exchanged and led a division under General Edmund Kirby Smith from mid to late 1864 . From March 1865 he took over from Major General John George Walker as commander of the military area of Texas . He and Smith surrendered on June 2, 1865, arrested, and released on June 20 in Galveston , Texas, on his honor .

After the war Forney taught at a small military academy. He also worked as a farmer and civil engineering engineer.

See also

literature

  • David J. Eicher: The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
  • Richard N. Current: Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0-13-275991-8 )
  • John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher: Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
  • Ezra J. Warner: Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

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personal data
SURNAME Forney, John Horace
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Confederate General in the American Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1829
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln , North Carolina , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1902
Place of death Jacksonville , Alabama , United States